If life is not life, then death must surely also be strange. The rebellion of the Animated against the post-mortal ’Facsimilie’, a world of containment and entertainment was never intended. The first Animated merely sought a way to leave, and being a genius only found a way to hide. As time wore on others joined him as he showed them existence beyond promised death. Now this humble Animated Human must find his way from the world he knew into the world humanity abandoned..

He had no given name, only a glimpsing recollection of the genetics information he was given to simulate whilst his body autopiloted through it’s given chores. With a jolt, he realised that the information was also his, along with a way past the robotic choruses promising death beyond, a way to live a life less alive, and yet more?